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clarified this a bit more upon re-reading the forum post
====If Dorn Died during M32====
*This date is supported by [[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]], where his hand is found as of [[M32]]{{fn|51}}. M32 is also the planned millennium of Dorn's Death as set by a joint meeting of the [[Black Library]] authors sometime during or prior to 2014 (though as of 2026 no Black Library novel has been published giving the account of Dorn's Death){{fn|44}}
*At no point during the [[War of the Beast]] is Rogal Dorn spoken of by the Imperial Fists as though he were present and in command of the Imperial Fists, however there is also no mention of his hand being in possession of the Imperial Fists.{{Fn|8}} During that war, Vulkan commended [[Koorland]] that his actions honoured Rogal Dorn and that he "will tell him so."{{fn|8}} If Dorn's Death was indeed the [[2nd Black Crusade]] the Imperial Fists should not yet have had possession of his hand.{{fn|41}} This may be further corroborated by Koorland not even considering the Hand of Dorn in response to Vulkan's words.
**It is feasible that Rogal Dorn, like Vulkan himself, vanished from Imperial public sight shortly after Corax and the [[Great Scouring]], remaining in hiding and only surfacing to lead the attack on the unspecified Black Crusade.{{Fn|8}} With the War of the Beast ending in 546.[[M32]]{{fn|52}}, the closest Black Crusade (and the only one of Abaddon's to occur in the millennium) to occur after it would be the [[2nd Black Crusade]] in 597.[[M32]], approximately 50 years later.{{Fn|41}} The 2nd Black Crusade was the only one which occurred in [[M32]] and did involve an attack through the Cadian Gate. However, in it would conflict with the account of Index Astartes II, it also involved an attack on Cadia.*The 2nd Black Crusade does feasibly the timeline of the alleged Black Library author meeting of "a couple hundred years after the First Black Crusade"{{fn|44}} (to be precise, the 2nd Black Crusade occurs 816 years after the first)
====If Dorn Died during or after M36====
====Author Commentary====
In a 2014 thread on [[Bolter & Chainsword]] by the (supposed)<sup>[[Rogal Dorn/Sources|[See Additional Sources]]]</sup> account of [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]] (ADB) regarding the planning of his [[Black Library (BL Publishing)|Black Library]] novels, he affirms the death of Rogal Dorn aboard the [[Sword of Sacrilege]] as per [[Index Astartes II]] (insofar as it was part of his planning). In According to him, the post he recounts some of his (at several Black Library authors came together to plan out the time) scrapped plans for writing the climax dates when each of the 1st Black CrusadePrimarchs died. The planned date for this climax would have been between Dorn's Death per the First and Second Black Crusade, groups planning was "early [[M2]] ... a couple hundred years after the first Black Crusade", as part of a joint author collaboration meeting to organize when '''all''' the primarchs had died.{{fn|44}} This would corroborate with then already released 6th edition space marine codex description of his hand being found in [[M32]].{{fn|51}} He had proposed instead having [[Abaddon]] kill Rogal Dorn, merging Dorn's death on the Sword of Sacrilege with the climax of the 1st Black Crusade. Ultimately this story concept was not chosen during the meeting, and thus it was not written.{{Fn|44}}
Per ADB in regards to who was slain by Abaddon during the climax of the First Black Crusade:
Later in 2017, Dembski-Bowden would publish [[Black Legion (Novel)]]. In this story, Abaddon recounted to [[Iskandar Khayon]] the death of Sigismund at his hands. Thus, at least as per the Black Library series narrative, Rogal Dorn was not slain by Abaddon at the end of the 1st Black Crusade.{{Fn|45}}
As of 2026, Rogal Dorn's Demise has not yet been written in any definitive, first person POV in a Black Library novel.
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